Isaac blesses Jacob

 Jacob Was Blessed

Isaac blesses Jacob

Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so that I can touch you.  Are you really Esau?”  Jacob moved closed to his father, who felt him and said, “Your voice sounds like Jacob’s voice, but your arms feel like Esau’s arms.”  He did not recognize Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau’s. He was about to give him his blessings, but asked again, “Are you really Esau?”

“I am,” he answered.

Isaac said, “Bring me some of the meat.  After I eat it, I will give you my blessing.”  Jacob brought it to him…

Then is father said to him, “Come closer and kiss me, son.” As he came up to kiss him, Isaac smelled his clothes---so he gave him his blessing.  He said, “The pleasant smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.  May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile!...May nations be your servant, and may peoples bow down before you.  May you rule over all your relatives, and may your mother’s descendants bow down before your.  May those who curse you be cursed, and may those who bless you be blessed.

Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting.  He also cooked some tasty food and took it to his father.  He said, “Please father, sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessings.”

“Who are you?”  Isaac asked.  Your older son Esau,” he answered.

Isaac began to tremble and shake all over, and he asked, “Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came.  I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.”

When Esau heard this, he cried out loudly and bitterly and said, “Give me your blessing also, father!...”

Isaac answered, I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves… Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!” Esau continued to plead with his father: “Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!”  He began to cry.  Then Isaac said to him, “No dew from heaven for you.  No fertile fields for you.  You will live by your sword, but be your brother’s slave.  Yet when you rebel, you will break away from his control.”.

(Pasugo, God’s Message: Quoted from Genesis 27:21-34, 37-40, Today’s English Version)

 

 

Jacob Was Named Israel

Jacob Is Israel

Jacob named Israel

God said to Jacob, “Go to Bethel at once, and live there.  Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau.”

So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.  We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone.”  So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing.  He buried then beneath them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.

When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.  Jacob came with all his people to Luz, which is now known as Bethel, in the land of Canaan.  He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.

When Jacob returned to Mesopotamia, God appeared to him again and blessed him.  God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel.” So God name him Israel.  And God said to him, “I am Almighty God.  Have many children.  Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings.  I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.”  Then God left him.  There, where God has spoken to him, Jacob set up a memorial stone and consecrated it by pouring wine and olive oil on it.  He named the place Bethel.

(Pasugo, God’s Message: Quoted from Genesis 35:1-7, 9-15 - Today’s English Version)

 

 

Isaac Blesses Jacob

Jacob Was Blessed By Isaac

Isaac blesses Jacob

Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so that I can touch you.  Are you really Esau?”  Jacob moved closed to his father, who felt him and said, “Your voice sounds like Jacob’s voice, but your arms feel like Esau’s arms.”  He did not recognize Jacob, because his arms were hairy like Esau’s. He was about to give him his blessings, but asked again, “Are you really Esau?”

“I am,” he answered.

Isaac said, “Bring me some of the meat.  After I eat it, I will give you my blessing.”  Jacob brought it to him…

Then is father said to him, “Come closer and kiss me, son.” As he came up to kiss him, Isaac smelled his clothes---so he gave him his blessing.  He said, “The pleasant smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed.  May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile!...May nations be your servant, and may peoples bow down before you.  May you rule over all your relatives, and may your mother’s descendants bow down before your.  May those who curse you be cursed, and may those who bless you be blessed.

Isaac finished giving his blessing, and as soon as Jacob left, his brother Esau came in from hunting.  He also cooked some tasty food and took it to his father.  He said, “Please father, sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessings.”

“Who are you?”  Isaac asked.  Your older son Esau,” he answered.

Isaac began to tremble and shake all over, and he asked, “Who was it, then, who killed an animal and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came.  I gave him my final blessing, and so it is his forever.”

When Esau heard this, he cried out loudly and bitterly and said, “Give me your blessing also, father!...”

Isaac answered, I have already made him master over you, and I have made all his relatives his slaves… Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!” Esau continued to plead with his father: “Do you have only one blessing, father? Bless me too, father!”  He began to cry.  Then Isaac said to him, “No dew from heaven for you.  No fertile fields for you.  You will live by your sword, but be your brother’s slave.  Yet when you rebel, you will break away from his control.”.

(Pasugo, God’s Message: Quoted from Genesis 27:21-34, 37-40, Today’s English Version)

Esau Sells His Rights To Jacob

Esau Sold His Rights 

 

Esau sells his rights to Jacob

This is the story of Abraham’s son Isaac.  Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban.  Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the LORD for her.  The LORD answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.  She was going to have twins, and before they were born, they struggled against each other in her womb.  She said, “Why should something like this happen to me?” So she went to ask the LORD for an answer.

The LORD said to her, “Two nations are within you; you will give birth to two rival peoples.  One will be stronger than the other; the older will serve the younger.”

The time came for her to give birth and she had twin sons.  The first was reddish, and his skin was like a hairy robe, so he was named Esau.  The second one was born holding on tightly to the heel of Esau, so he was named Jacob.  Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

The boys grew up, and Esau became a skilled hunter, a man who loved the outdoors, but Jacob was a quite man who stayed at home.  Isaac preferred Esau because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed, but Rebecca preferred Jacob.

One day while Jacob was cooking some bean soup, Esau came in from hunting.  He was hungry and said Jacob, I’m starving; give me some of the red stuff.” (That is why he was named Edom).

Jacob answered, “I will give it to you if you give me your rights as the first-born son.”

Esau said, “All right! I am about to die; what good will my rights do me?”

Jacob answered, “First make a vow that you will give me your rights as the first-born son”.

Esau made he vow and gave his rights to Jacob.  Then Jacob gave him some bread and some of the soup.  He ate and drank and then got up and left.  That was all Esau cared about his rights as the first-born son.

Quoted from Genesis 25:19-34, Today’s English Version

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